School: Coppena, Graiguenamanagh (roll number 1152)
- Location:
- Coppanagh, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Bean Uí Cheallaigh
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“One night he was going across a field which contained a rath from his own house to O Neill's Ballyogan.”
(continued from previous page)night. At last he though of a plan. He had often head that if he turned any part of his clothes inside out he would get safely across. He then turned his coat inside out and got safely to his destination.
- 1. Old mother sage sitting in her cage and all her children dead with age.
An apple tree in winter . 2. The longer it lives the short it grows.
Lighted Candle.3. The man who made it didn't wear it and the man who wore it didn't see it.
A coffin. 4. Neither inside nor outside the house does it lie and yet every day surely it I espy.
A window 5. It opens like a barn door and sets like a trap and you'd think of fifty things before you'd think of that.
the mouth 6. Why does a cow look over a ditch
because she couldnt look under it. 7. Riddle me riddle me rantio, my Father gave me some seeds to sow.(continues on next page)
